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Aidan Dwyer is one observant young man. On a winter hike last year he noticed that there’s a pattern to the way the oak branches grow. Dwyer, 13, took a few photos and kept on investigating, ultimately designing a solar panel array based on the tree structure — which he connected to the mathematical Fibonacci sequence. The results won him a Young Naturalist Award from the American Museum of Natural History in New …